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Nobody knows for sure, but it seems highly likely. From what Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) said today it sounds like there is a push for polish towards the next LTS release. Based on that it seems highly likely Unity will be kept as the default interface until at least 12.04

As in Ubuntu 10.10 (and 10.04), GNOME Shell will be available to install, and should be a first-class citizen. The existing “GNOME 3” session you can select from the login screen will remain, and will continue to provide a close to standard upstream GNOME Shell experience.

So, while Unity will be the default experience, it will remain easy to use GNOME Shell (or the existing traditional 2D desktop) instead.

I think not "only". Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I can say best version. So... there are and there will be a lot of versions (10.04, 10.10) to use... I think it is OK about default interface 11.04, even next versions :)

I believe the question asker is well aware of this. That article refers to release 11.04. The question is what will happen after 11.04, e.g. 11.10?
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8128Oct 28 '10 at 11:48

@fluteflute I know, but i doubt in 6 months they'll go back again ti GNOME.
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Mr ShunzOct 28 '10 at 12:03

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I don't see why this answer is getting negative votes. It seems clear to me in the article that Ubuntu Desktop will go for Unity instead of Gnome Shell and I don't see why they would implement Unity in 11.04 to go back to Gnome Shell in the following release. They are looking for a unified experience between UNE and UDE, so such a move would be totally counter productive and not user friendly.
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lovinglinuxOct 28 '10 at 13:52